(Mike Lehmann) Web services have moved beyond the experimental stage in many organizations and are now becoming the foundation of numerous service-oriented architectures. Thus, architects are concerned about best practices for building, deploying, and maintaining a large-scale interoperable Web serv
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Securing Web Services
(Mike Lehmann) When I give presentations about Web services, questions inevitably come from the audience regarding security. The most common question is, “How do you secure Web services?” often followed by the skeptical statement “Web services can’t be secured.”
Displaying PDF files stored as OLE Objects in a database
(Sahir Shah) Most database formats support the storage binary large objects. These objects can be pictures, word documents , excel spreadsheets, PDF documents etc. This article describes how you can retrieve and display PDF documents stored as OLE Objects in an MSAccess database. Because we use
Develop DB2 Everyplace apps with .NET (Part 2)
This is the second tutorial in a series of three covering the development of a mobile service technician sample application for DB2 Everyplace using Visual Studio .NET 2003 and the .NET framework. It introduces developers to the DB2 Everyplace mobile database API for .NET for implementing required d
Software helps users connect six degrees of separation
(Ann Bednarz) Conventional wisdom dictates it’s not what you know, but who you know that matters. In the world of identity resolution software, that adage is particularly relevant.
HiT Software Joins MySQL Partner Program
HiT Software, Inc., a developer of standards-based products for relational database access, today announced that it has joined the MySQL Partner Program to increase interoperability between MySQL — an open source database – and other database products and applications.
Harden MS Reporting Services Using Custom Extensions
(Teo Lachev) One of the most useful features of Microsoft Reporting Services is its extensibility model. Just about any aspect of Reporting Services can be custom-tailored to meet your specific requirements. Part one of this two-part series explains how to replace the default Windows-based secur
Oracle and PeopleSoft – Better Together
Join us from 9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. PST to hear Oracle’s Executive Management Team launch the integration of Oracle and PeopleSoft, hosted by Oracle Presidents Safra Catz and Charles Phillips.
SQL Server 2005 Part 5 – High Availability and Scalability Enhancements
(Marcin Policht) In this article, we continue our discussion on high availability and scalability enhancements in SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 release. Features such as clustering, database mirroring, online indexing, fast recovery, database snapshots, and snapshot isolation transaction level have already
Thwarting hacker techniques: Reconnaissance
(Vernon Habersetzer) Think for a moment about the possibility of your company’s infrastructure being in the crosshairs of a serious hacker. How valuable would information about your infrastructure be? Do you really know how much sensitive information is publicly accessible or easily obtainable w